“Architecture Now: New York, New Publics' at MoMA sweeps a dozen projects under the rubric of “public amenity” to distinguish them from the trophies of capitalism
More fancifully still, the show includes Peterson Rich Office’s “Scalable Solutions for NYCHA,” an eminently logical yet somehow profoundly unrealistic set of tweaks to public housing as it currently exists. Architects naturally treat NYCHA’s problems as architectural challenges, and Peterson Rich has volunteered to improve life for residents by pasting a set of mass-timber balconies onto the buildings’ brick façades, adding a couple of low-rise wings, and re-landscaping open areas.
It’s a beautiful design, one that would have remained on a sketchpad if not for an improbable chain of policies and circumstances: the Bloomberg-era effort to draw the Olympics to New York, which led to the rezoning of Long Island City and the siting there of a massive affordable-housing campaign; Hurricane Sandy, which reinforced the wisdom of ringing the city with wave-calming wetlands; the; and the city’s crucial decision to pay for parkland outright rather than obliging developers to build...
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